AI boom leaves hundreds of pre-ChatGPT startups stranded as investor focus shifts
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Hugh Son
Summary
The article examines how the AI boom triggered by ChatGPT's launch in late 2022 has disrupted hundreds of startups that were built in the pre-AI era. Many companies that received billion-dollar valuations during the low-interest-rate, pandemic-fueled startup boom are now struggling as investor attention and capital have shifted overwhelmingly toward AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, which have collectively raised over $250 billion. Founders of non-AI startups are finding it increasingly difficult to raise funding, justify their valuations, or even survive, as the market landscape has fundamentally shifted.
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· 3 pulledThe ChatGPT moment was when people said, 'We need to rethink everything.'
Five years ago, venture capitalists were pouring money into American startups selling everything from lingerie subscriptions to scheduling software, anointing them with billion-dollar valuations before most even turned a profit.
The AI boom that has funneled more than $250 billion into OpenAI and Anthropic has left hundreds of startups built before ChatGPT's arrival in 2022 stranded.
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